The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-09-01

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Mrs. Cleveland has returned to Washing
ton, from q visit in Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Powderly says he is not member Of
the new American Party, as had been
telegraphed.
p. E. Tarpy OF New York has ben ap-
pointed superintendent Of Indian schools at
Grand Junction, COL
Miss Anna Dickinson has SO far recovered
her health as to be able to take short walks
in the open air at Honesdale.
Rev. Isaac Jennings, d. D., for 33 years
the pastor of the old First Church, Benning-
ton Center, Vt, is dead, aged y.
Prof. Spencer Baird, the head OF the
United States Fish Commission died at
Woods Holl, Mass, aged u years.
Mr. TenBroeck tho present general Eastern
agent for the Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy
road, has accepted the same position with
the Union Pacific.
The annual meeting of the National
Editorial association will convene at
Denver, Col, Sept. IS. The date was
originally for Sept. 9.
Alvin Clark, who was born In 1904, died in
Cambridge, Mass, after brief illness. He
had q worldwide reputation as an astron.
omer and manufacturer Of telescopes.
At q meeting Of the stonemasons Of Pitts
burgh and Allegheny City it was decided to
leave the Knights of Labor and go into the
International Association Of Bricklayers
and Stonemasons.
A dispatch from Wiers N. H., says Gen.
Black, commissioner Of pensions, a guest Of
the New Hampshire veterans, is reported
quite Ill with infiammatory rheumatism at
the residence of Hon. s. Hutchinson and
has been attended by three physicians.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road
has appointed as its southwestern general
agent J. II. Hiland, of st. Paul. He will
have charge OF all business OF the company
originating in the south west, and will
make his headquarters at Kansas City.
Mayor Hewitt, Of Now York city, and q
committee of the board OF aldermen, ap-
pointed for that purpose have sent an invita-
to Mrs President Cleveland to attend the
New York firemens' parade and inspection
next month, and present stand Of colors on
that occasion to the fire department.
AtCincinnati, Ohio, Judge Kumler, Of the
court OF common pleas, has granted q
mandamus on the application Of the Union
Labor party, directing the board Of elec-
tions to hereafter recognize the Union
clerks, registrars and judges of election.
A call has beSn issued hy leading
representatives of the Knights of Labor
trades unions, land and labor clubs, union
labor clubs and other similar organizations
throughout the commonwealth for q state
convention to be held in Boston, Mass,
Sept. IA, for the purpose of nominating .
full state labor ticket.
Walter B. Brooks was nominated for Gov
ernor by the Maryland Republican state
convention, r. b. Dixon for Controller,
and Francis Miller for Attorney General.
The platform is q complaint in regard to
federal appointments in Maryland controll.
ed by Senator German and q criticism up.
on the system Of State taxation.
Prof. Alexander Meyrowitz, A. III. Phi. D.,
one of the most learned Hebrew scholars
and biological students in this country,
died at New York. Prof Meyrowitz was
known in every seat Of learning in the
companion and tutor of many prominen,
clergymen. He was born in Poland in 1910
The old homestead on Hicks street
Brooklyn, N. Y, where Henry Ward
Beecher lived for SO many years, has l,ee,
leased to a Brooklyn boarding house
keeper. All the Beecher furniture has
been removed, and strangers have taken
possession. The woman who has hired the
house has had several applications fol
possession of The room in which Beechel
died.
The Philadelphia Press of the 23rd said
that during the constitutional centennial il
that city next month there will he a con
vcntion Of "the American national commit
tee, who claim to represent l5,lOO, 600 per
sons throughout the country interested IL
reviving what they consider purely Ameri
can ideas, and, in o modified form, the
Know Nothing movement OF q generation
ago. Mr. Powderly is leading member o.
the new party"
ExJudge A. A. Vanderpoel, tho head O
the well known law firm Of Vanderpoel
Green aud Comming, New York City, ha
died in Paris. His death was due to appo
plexy, preMonitory symptoms of which be
| gan to show themselves last spring. III
| was born in Kinderhook, October, 1S25. Th'
| OLD Dutch family to which he belonged wa
among the earliest to settle In the state
President Martin Van Buren, and other pub
| lie men of note were connected with it. MIR
| Vanderpoel graduated from New York uni
| versity and began his legal career asa mem